Team Organization: An Enduring Competitive Advantage (Wiley Series in Industrial and Organizational Psychology) - Hardcover

Tjosvold, Dean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047192301X ISBN 13: 9780471923015

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1990

Synopsis

"Team Organization" aims to show how working as a team up and down and across the organization creates value, serves customers and gives competitive advantages. This book integrates research findings into a framework that aims to clarify confusions by showing how successful teams envision a common direction, recognize that their goals are united, feel empowered and skillful, explore alternative positions before deciding, and reflect on their progress. The challenge is to appreciate how teamwork contributes to organizations, understand the conditions that make interaction between people and groups highly effective, and develop the procedures and plans that put this effectiveness to work. How can groups be channelled and managed so that they become invaluable allies as organizations cope with threats and exploit opportunities? The book does not try to criticize group studies or review them comprehensively, but uses group research to develop a comprehensive framework to managing and leading in an organization. It develops a model that identifies the nature of productive teams and how to create them. The book has four sections. Part one outlines the book's model and its research support. Part two summarizes the research on team potentials and pitfalls. Part three describes the major ingredients of successful teams and show how they can be developed. The last section focuses on how the team organization model can be applied to the organization as a whole.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Team Organization An Enduring Competitive Advantage Dean Tjosvold, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Team Organization explores group processes in organizations and shows how well–structured teams promote organizational effectiveness. The author uses group research to develop a straight–forward, powerful model which identifies the nature of productive teams and shows how to create them. He demonstrates that through productive teamwork the organization develops competitive advantages and integrates people into a company. Practitioners, researchers and advanced students working in the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, and management can use this book to obtain the tools necessary to develop teamwork which, in turn, will stimulate ongoing innovation and gain employee commitment. This is the second book to appear in the new Wiley Series in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Series Editors: Cary L. Cooper, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, and Neal Schmitt,Michigan State University, USA.

About the Author

About the author: After graduating from Princeton University, Dean Tjosvold studied the social psychology of organizations for his PhD, which he obtained from the University of Minnesota in 1972. He is now a Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Before that he taught at Pennsylvania State University and was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore. He has published over 100 articles and several books on managing conflict, cooperation and competition, decision making, power, and other management issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047192301X
• ISBN 13: 9780471923015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266